LFG-list February 2022

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2nd Call for papers for the Workshop on Computational Linguistics on East Asian Languages
by Elodie Winckel 27 Feb '22

27 Feb '22

*A one-day workshop on Computational Linguistics on East Asian Languages* will be held as an online event on 31 July 2022, in conjunction with the 29th International Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (29-30 July 2022). The aim of the workshop is to promote interdisciplinary and cross-language discussion on approaches to linguistic analyses using computational techniques (broadly construed), with a focus on East Asian languages. We strongly encourage researchers from outside the HPSG framework to submit. Possible topics include, but are not limited to syntactic/semantic parsing, cognitive modelling with computational models, development of language resources with annotations beyond the word level (treebanks, propbanks, discourse annotations, etc.), and applications of large-scale corpus data and/or sophisticated machine learning techniques to addressing questions in linguistic theory. *Workshop Format: * The workshop on Computational Linguistics on East Asian languages will take place following the two-day main HPSG 2022 conference. Presentations will be pre-recorded and pre-loaded on the conference website, and the discussion period will be online. *Invited speaker:* Koji Mineshima (Keio University) *Submissions: *We welcome two types of submissions for the workshop: - Long papers (4-page abstract + 1 page data, figures & references; 20 minute pre-recorded presentation + 15 minute online discussion) - Short papers (2-page abstract + 1 page data, figures & references; 10 minute pre-recorded presentation + 10 minute online discussion) Please note that abstracts submitted for the “long paper” track can be accepted as “short papers” (and vice versa) and that the Program Committee may choose to move a paper submitted to the workshop to the main conference (and vice versa), whenever such decisions seem appropriate. Only “long papers” will appear in the proceedings. If you intend to present at the workshop, please choose the option Computational Linguistics Workshop as your Submission Type. All abstracts should be submitted in PDF format via: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpsg22 All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. The submissions should not include the authors' names, and authors are asked to avoid self-references. Please direct any questions to the Program Committee Chair: Elodie Winckel (hpsg22(a)easychair.org). *Workshop organizer: * Yusuke Kubota (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics) *Important dates:* Abstract submission deadline: March 16th 2022 (anywhere on Earth) Notifications of acceptance: May 2nd 2022 Main Conference: July 29th-30th 2022 Workshop on Computational Linguistics on East Asian Languages : July 31st 2022 *Publication:* A call for contributions to the proceedings will be issued after the conference. The papers will be published either at the online proceedings platform at CSLI together with the main conference proceedings or in a separate collective volume.

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2nd Call for papers for the 29th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
by Elodie Winckel 24 Feb '22

24 Feb '22

/Dear LFG community,// // //I would like to remind you of the international HPSG conference (hosted online), to which you are cordially invited. Please feel free to forward this call for papers to anyone who might be interested.// / *The 29th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar* will be virtually hosted at Nagoya University and the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics on 29 July - 31 July 2022. It is an online event. Abstracts are invited that address linguistic, foundational, or computational issues relating to or in the spirit of the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Comparison of HPSG work with related theoretical approaches is also welcome. *Conference Format:* The HPSG 2022 conference will be a two-day main conference. It will be followed by a one-day workshop on Computational Linguistics on East Asian Languages, which will be announced separately. Presentations will be pre-recorded and pre-loaded on the conference website, and the discussion period will be online. *Invited speakers:* • Francis Bond (NTU) • Seiko Fujii (The University of Tokyo) *Submissions:* We welcome two types of submissions for the main HPSG conference: - Long papers (4-page abstract + 1 page data, figures & references; 20 minute pre-recorded presentation + 15 minute online discussion) - Short papers (2-page abstract + 1 page data, figures & references; 10 minute pre-recorded presentation + 10 minute online discussion) Please note that abstracts submitted for the "long paper" track can be accepted as "short papers" (and vice versa). Only "long papers" will appear in the proceedings. All abstracts should be submitted in PDF format via: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpsg22 All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. The submissions should not include the authors' names, and authors are asked to avoid self-references. Please direct any questions to the Program Committee Chair: Elodie Winckel (hpsg22(a)easychair.org). A call for contributions to the proceedings will be issued after the Conference. Proceedings of previous conferences are available at: https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/issue/archive. *Important Dates:* Abstract submission deadline: March 16th 2022 (anywhere on earth) Notifications of acceptance: May 2nd 2022 Main Conference : July 29th-30th 2022 Workshop on Computational Linguistics on East Asian languages : July 31st 2022 Conference proceedings submission: October 15th 2022 *Local Organizing Committee Chair: * David Oshima (Nagoya University) Yusuke Kubota (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)

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Fifth Groningen Spring School on Cognitive Modelling
by Stephen Jones 15 Feb '22

15 Feb '22

Fifth Groningen Spring School on Cognitive Modeling – ACT-R, Nengo, PRIMs, and error-driven learning. – Date: 4 to 8 April 2022<2022-04-04%2012:00:00%20CEST> Location: Groningen, the Netherlands Fee: € 300 (late fee after March 7<2022-03-07%2012:00:00%20CET> will be € 350) www.cognitive-modeling.com/springschool<http://www.cognitive-modeling.com/springschool> After an enforced two-year covid break, we are excited to announce the fifth Groningen Spring School on Cognitive Modeling (4 to 8 April 2022<2022-04-04%2012:00:00%20CEST>), with a great lineup of speakers. The Spring School will cover four different modeling paradigms: ACT-R, Nengo, PRIMs, and discriminative learning. It thereby offers a unique opportunity to learn the relative strengths and weaknesses of these approaches. In addition, this year we are offering a lecture series on dynamical systems, which should be interesting for anyone looking into modeling cognitive dynamics at some or other level of abstraction. We recommend this lecture series as an excellent combination with Nengo, for those interested in neuromorphic computing. The first day will provide an introduction to all five topics. From day two, spring school students will be asked to commit to one topic, for which they will attend lectures as well as hands-on tutorials to get practical experience at working with the paradigm. In addition, students can sign up for a second topic, for which they will attend lectures only. All students are invited to join a series of plenary research talks on the different paradigms. Please feel free to forward the information to anyone who might be interested in the Spring School. The Spring School team PS: Please note that, due to its interactive character, the spring school will be held as an offline-only event. We will not offer the option for hybrid or online teaching. In case the spring school needs to be cancelled at the last minute after all, participants will receive a full reimbursement. ______________ ACT-R Teachers: Jelmer Borst, Stephen Jones, & Katja Mehlhorn (University of Groningen) Website: http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu<http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/>. ACT-R is a high-level cognitive theory and simulation system for developing cognitive models for tasks that vary from simple reaction time experiments to driving a car, learning algebra, and air traffic control. ACT-R can be used to develop process models of a task at a symbolic level. Participants will follow a compressed five-day version of the traditional summer school curriculum. We will also cover the connection between ACT-R and fMRI. Nengo Teacher: Terry Stewart and Andreas Stöckel (University of Waterloo) Website: http://www.nengo.ca<http://www.nengo.ca/> Nengo is a toolkit for converting high-level cognitive theories into low-level spiking neuron implementations. In this way, aspects of model performance such as response accuracy and reaction times emerge as a consequence of neural parameters such as the neurotransmitter time constants. It has been used to model adaptive motor control, visual attention, serial list memory, reinforcement learning, Tower of Hanoi, and fluid intelligence. Participants will learn to construct these kinds of models, starting with generic tasks like representing values and positions, and ending with full production-like systems. There will also be special emphasis on extracting various forms of data out of a model, such that it can be compared to experimental data. PRIMs Teacher: Niels Taatgen (University of Groningen) Website: https://www.ai.rug.nl/~niels/prims/index.html How do people handle and prioritize multiple tasks? How can we learn something in the context of one task, and partially benefit from it in another task? The goal of PRIMs is to cross the artificial boundary that most cognitive architectures have imposed on themselves by studying single tasks. It has mechanisms to model transfer of cognitive skills, and the competition between multiple goals. In the tutorial we will look at how PRIMs can model phenomena of cognitive transfer and cognitive training, and how multiple goals compete for priority in models of distraction. Discriminative learning and the lexicon: NDL and LDL Harald Baayen, Yu-Ying Chuang, and Maria Heitmeier University of Tuebingen NDL and LDL are simple computational algorithms for lexical learning and lexical processing. Both NDL and LDL assume that learning is discriminative, driven by prediction error, and that it is this error which calibrates the association strength between input and output representations. Both words’ forms and their meanings are represented by numeric vectors, and mappings between forms and meanings are set up. For comprehension, form vectors predict meaning vectors. For production, meaning vectors map onto form vectors. These mappings can be learned incrementally, approximating how children learn the words of their language. Alternatively, optimal mappings representing the endstate of learning can be estimated. The NDL and LDL algorithms are incorporated in a computational theory of the mental lexicon, the ‘discriminative lexicon’. The model shows good performance both with respect to production and comprehension accuracy, and for predicting aspects of lexical processing, including morphological processing, across a wide range of experiments. Since mathematically, NDL and LDL implement multivariate multiple regression, the ‘discriminative lexicon’ provides a cognitively motivated statistical modeling approach to lexical processing. In this course, we will show how comprehension and production of morphologically complex words can be modeled successfully with the "Discriminative Lexicon" model for a range of languages (Hebrew, Maltese, English, German, Dutch, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, Kinyarwanda, Estonian, and Finnish). We will discuss the kinds of form and meaning representations that can be set up, including form features derived from the speech signal for auditory comprehension and semantic features grounded in distributional semantics. Furthermore, we will provide a survey of the measures that can be derived from the model mappings to predict empirical response variables such as reaction times in primed and unprimed lexical decision, spoken word duration, and tongue movements during speaking. Finally, participants will receive some training in using the JudiLing package for Julia. This package provides optimized code for implementing and evaluating components of a "discriminative lexicon" for a given language. Dynamical Systems: a Navigation Guide Teacher: Herbert Jaeger (University of Groningen) This lecture series gives a broad overview over the zillions of formal models and methods invented by mathematicians and physicists for describing “dynamical systems”. Here is a list of covered items: Finite-state automata (with and without input, deterministic and non-deterministic, probabilistic), hidden Markov models and partially observable Markov decision processes, cellular automata, dynamical Bayesian networks, iterated function systems, ordinary differential equations, stochastic differential equations, delay differential equations, partial differential equations, (neural) field equations, Takens’ theorem, the engineering view on “signals”, describing sequential data by grammars, Chomsky hierarchy, exponential and power-law long-range interactions, attractors, structural stability, bifurcations, phase transitions, topological dynamics, nonautonomous attractor concepts. In the lectures I work out the connecting lines between these different models and methods, aiming at drawing the "big picture". ?

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LFG22: extended deadline (22 February 2022)
by Agnieszka Patejuk 10 Feb '22

10 Feb '22

Call for Papers: the deadline for LFG22 has been extended to 22 February. The updated call for papers follows. [Apologies for cross-posting] LFG22: The 27th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference 12 July - 14 July 2022 University of Groningen Conference website: https://www.ai.rug.nl/lfg22/ Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): lfgconf2022 'at' gmail.com Abstract submission deadline: 22 February 2022, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfg22 Invited speakers: Miriam Butt (University of Konstanz) and Helge Lødrup (University of Oslo) Workshop: A workshop on Formal Grammars and Cognition will be held on Friday 15 July 2022 (keynote speaker: Balthasar Bickel, University of Zürich). The workshop aims to promote discussion and collaboration between researchers working on formal theories of grammar (including but not limited to Lexical Functional Grammar) and those in the fields of language and cognition. Please refer to the conference website for more details. Conference mode: We are currently planning a physical conference and hope that speakers will be able to attend in person. A synchronous, online participation option will be available. LFG22 welcomes work within the formal architecture of Lexical-Functional Grammar as well as typological, formal, and computational work within the 'spirit of LFG' as a lexicalist approach to language employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The conference aims to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in non-derivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as the interaction of (perhaps violable) constraints from multiple levels of structuring, including those of syntactic categories, grammatical relations, semantics and discourse. SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS The main conference sessions will involve 45-minute talks (30 min + 15 min discussion), and poster presentations. Contributions can focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational. Presentations should describe original, unpublished work. DISSERTATION SESSION As in previous years, we are hoping to hold a special session that will give students the chance to present recent PhD dissertations (or other student research dissertations). The dissertations must be completed by the time of the conference, and they should be made publicly accessible (e.g., on the World Wide Web). The talks in this session should provide an overview of the main original points of the dissertation; the talks will be 20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute discussion period. Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to student submissions. Students who present papers in either session will receive a small subvention towards their conference costs from the International LFG Association (ILFGA). TIMETABLE Deadline for abstracts: 22 February 2022, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2022 Conference: 12 July - 14 July 2022 SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS The language of the conference is English, and all abstracts must be written in English. All abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system. Submissions should be in the form of abstracts only. Abstracts can be up to three A4 pages, including figures and references. Abstracts should be in 10pt or larger type, with margins of at least 2cm on all four sides, and should include a title. Omit name and affiliation (including in PDF document properties), and avoid obvious self-reference. For dissertation session submissions, please add "Dissertation" to the title of your abstract. Please submit your abstract in .pdf format (or a plain text file). The number of submissions is not restricted. However, in the interests of high participation and broad representation, each author should be involved in a maximum of two oral papers and can only be a single author of one. There are no restrictions on poster presentations. Authors may want to keep this in mind when stating their preferences concerning the mode of presentation of their submissions. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least three referees. Papers accepted to the conference can be submitted to the refereed proceedings, and will be published, subject to acceptance, online by CSLI Publications. (Please note that papers submitted to the proceedings are no longer automatically accepted for publication in the proceedings.) See http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/LFG/ for recent proceedings. PRE-CONFERENCE EXCURSION There will be an optional conference excursion on Monday 11 July 2022. ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES If you have queries about abstract submission or have problems using the EasyChair submission system, please contact the Program Committee. Program Chairs (Email: lfg22 'at' easychair.org) Tina Bögel, University of Konstanz Agnieszka Patejuk, Polish Academy of Sciences and University of Oxford Local conference organizers (Email: lfgconf2022 'at' gmail.com) Stephen Jones, University of Groningen FURTHER INFORMATION Further information about LFG as a framework for linguistic analysis is available at the following site: https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/

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February 5 SE-LFG meeting online
by Joey L 04 Feb '22

04 Feb '22

Hi all, Just a reminder that the 31st SE-LFG meeting will take place this Saturday, February 5 from 1-4:30 PM, UK time. You can attend online via Zoom or in person in Oxford. See the website for the Zoom link as well as titles and abstracts of the four presentations: https://sites.google.com/site/selfgmeetings/south-of-england-lfg-meetings/s… Joey

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